Word Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps) : Exam Voucher

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The Microsoft Office Specialist: Word Expert Certification demonstrates competency in creating and managing professional documents for a variety of specialized purposes and situations. The exam covers the ability to customize Word environments to meet project needs, and to enhance productivity. Examples of expert-level documents include a business plan, a research paper, a book, a specialized brochure, and a mass mailing.

An individual earning this certification has approximately 150 hours of instruction and hands-on experience with the product, has proven competency at an industry expert-level and is ready to enter into the job market. They can demonstrate the correct application of the principal features of Word at an expert-level and can complete tasks independently.

Manage Document Options and Settings

Manage documents and templates

• Modify existing document templates
• Manage document versions
• Compare and combine multiple documents
• Link to external document content
• Enable macros in a document
• Manage the Quick Access toolbar
• Display hidden ribbon tabs
• Change the Normal template default font

Prepare documents for collaboration

• Restrict editing
• Protect documents by using passwords

Use and configure language options

• Configure editing and display languages
• Use language-specific features

Use Advanced Editing and Formatting Features

Find, replace, and paste document content

• Find and replace text by using wildcards and
special characters
• Find and replace formatting and styles
• Apply Paste Options
Configure paragraph layout options
• Configure hyphenation and line numbers
• Set paragraph pagination options

Create and manage paragraph, character,
and table styles

• Create styles
• Modify styles
• Copy styles to other documents or templates

Create Custom Document Elements

Create and modify building blocks

• Create QuickParts
• Manage building blocks
Create custom design elements
• Create custom color sets
• Create custom font sets
• Create custom themes
• Create custom style sets
Create and manage indexes
• Mark index entries
• Create indexes
• Update indexes

Create and manage tables of figures

• Insert figure and table captions
• Configure caption properties
• Insert and modify a table of figures

Create and manage bibliographies

• Create and modify bibliography citation sources
• Insert citations for bibliographies
• Insert bibliographies

Use Advanced Word Features

Manage forms, fields, and controls

• Add custom fields
• Modify field properties
• Insert standard content controls
• Configure standard content controls

Create and modify macros

• Record simple macros
• Name simple macros
• Edit simple macros
• Copy macros to other documents or templates

Perform mail merges

• Manage recipient lists
• Insert merged fields
• Preview merge results
• Create merged documents, labels, and envelopes